I've been giving this whole FISA snafu a lot of thought, and I've finally been convinced. My neocon, liberty-hating friends are absolutely correct!

So where the heck did the billions go?  You know, the billions that we spent to rebuild Iraq.  Lots of people are wondering now.  According to Buzzflash, the Iraqis themselves have some questions. The Washington Post has some questions.

Remember the old Pepsodent jingle?
"You'll wonder where the yellow went,
when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent."

Time for a 21st century update:
"You'll wonder where the billions went,
when you elect George Bush your president."

Continuing the semantic absurdities that Rove wove into a speech on Friday, Reuters reports that Rove said the following:

"Let me be as clear as I can be: President Bush believes if al Qaeda is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interests to know who they're calling and why."

According to Rueters, in his Saturday radio address response to Bush, Democratic Senator Harry] Reid accused Republicans of using "doublespeak" to sell their agenda.

So the White House's hopes that there are no pictures of the president together with Abramoff have been dashed.  The Washingtonian claims to have "seen five photos of the President with Abramoff or his family. One photo shows the President and Abramoff shaking hands at a meeting in the Old Executive Office Building, where a bearded-Abramoff introduced Bush to several of the lobbyist's native-American clients."

In addition, the paper claims that "Abramoff would tell prosecutors, if asked, that not only did he know the President, but the President knew the names of Abramoff's children and asked about them during their meetings. At one such photo session, Bush discussed the fact that both he and Abramoff were fathers of twins."

George W. Bush and his administration are in cahoots with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

There. I said it.

Ohio seems to have slid further into the 21st century crevice of corruption than most states.  You have the questionable 2004 election.  You have Governor Taft convicted of a crime related to unreported gifts and outings.  You have the "coingate" scandal where state workers' compensation funds were practically handed over to a big Republican fundraiser for "investment" in rare coins that seem to have disappeared.  You have Congressman Bob Ney front and center in the Abramoff scandal.  You have Howard Dean announcing that Ohio is "the center of Republican corruption scandals."

It ain't limited to the political arena, either.  Witness a report from the Toledo Blade about fraud in connection with a nuclear plant.

"Six, you're becoming incredibly paranoid!", someone said to me recently.
"Oh, how do you figure?"
"Well, everything you say is, well, Hitler this, Germany that, that Bush is....."
"Logic.", I state coldly. "As Neils Bohr said, follow the clues, the theory, then, writes itself!".........

So Karl "am I indicted yet" Rove spoke to members of the Republican National Committee today, and continued to be Karl Rove.  Just to keep the universe from rupturing, Ken Mehlman also continued to be Ken Mehlman, but lets make this Rove's day.

Two things he said really struck me as the epitome of what's wrong with Rove specifically, and the current crop of Republicans generally:

"Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world."

"We need to learn from our successes, and from the failures of others."

Now that the final tallies have been published for the December elections in Iraq, it's time to review the results, the way they've been portrayed, what they mean for trying to form an Iraqi permanent government, and what it means for the U.S.

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